72nd ABW change of command Thursday Published June 25, 2013 Tinker Public Affairs TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- Col. Steven Bleymaier will relinquish command of the 72nd Air Base Wing in a 10 a.m. ceremony June 27 at the Tinker Club. Col. Christopher P. Azzano, recently commander of the 412th Operations Group at Edwards AFB, Calif., will be the new commander. Colonel Bleymaier has been the 72nd ABW commander since January 2012. His next assignment is at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, as the deputy commander of Air Force Materiel Command Logistics.